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What is the Most Difficult Kanji, even for Japanese People?
Japanese people know lots of kanji, but despite that there are still a few that can trip them up. Perhaps the most difficult kanji to learn is also one that has a lot of strokes, the kanji which means incidentally “gloom” or “depression”. It has a whopping 29 strokes. When you see it on the monitor you can’t really identify it, it just looks like a small square of black mess.
Here is the kanji: 鬱
The most difficult kanji.
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October 15th, 2009 at 8:31 am
May not be the most difficult, but one with the most strokes, esp, if you took Chinese into account.
Some more contestants (after googling):
籲 32 strokes
齉 36 storkes
靐 39 strokes
龘 48 strokes
All except 籲 is not used in daily lifes.
Character with highest number of strokes (Chinese)
http://history.163.com/07/0402/19/3B3K5C5J00011247.html
Character with highest number of strokes (Japanese)
http://web.archive.org/web/20071218185711/www.akatsukinishisu.net/kanji/mottomo.html
Wiki have the full story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character#Rare_and_complex_characters